Koro{ka....the colourful valleys

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Koro{ka

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Historical markers 35.000 – 20.000 B. C. 14th – 12th & 8th – 6th century B. C. 3rd century B. C. 16 B. C. 1st – 5th century late 4th – 5th century 626-658 8th – 9th century 9th – 10th century 976 1091 1137 1147 1154 1185 13th century 1228 1248 1251 1266 before 1267 1335 1424 2nd half of 15th century 1478 1489 1480 – 1500 1515 1564 1573 1602 1620 1665 1700 1723 1757-1761 1774 1782 1809 1818 1822 1827 1829 1839 – 1842 1840 1863 1899 1909 1918 1918 – 1920 10. 10. 1920 1922 1939 1945 1952 1989 1991 2004 2006

The oldest cave sites with traces of a human presence in the caves of Herkove pe~i above Radlje and of [pehovka in Huda luknja. Prehistoric fortified forts: The hill of Grajski hrib above the Stari trg, the Gradi{~e village above Slovenj Gradec, the Pigl hill above Javornik in Ravne. Celtic tribes are unified in Noricum (“the Noric Iron”). The Romans subjugate the Celtic habitants of Noricum. Roman settlement Colatio (Stari trg) and the burial ground Zagrad near Prevalje by an important Roman road, and rural estates in Zg. Dov`e, Zagrad and Muta. Late-antique necropolis on the Pu{~ava at Grad above Stari trg. The Samo’s tribal union connects the Slavic tribes; it becomes the basis for foundation of the Duchy of Carantania. The burial ground from the Early Middle Ages on the Pu{~ava at Grad above Stari trg. Remains of an early-Christian church with an Old-Slavic necropolis at the church of St. George (sv. Jurij) at Legen. Carinthia (Koro{ka) acquires the formal status of duchy. Earliest documented mention of Slovenj Gradec. Earliest mention of ^rna na Koro{kem. The settlement of today’s Sp. Muta acquires the rights for keeping a toll-house. Earliest mention of Me`ica. Dravograd was mentioned as a borough with a castle, two manors, a church of St. Vitus (sv. Vid) and a tollhouse. The beginnings of timber rafting on the Drava. The Istrian margrave Henrik II. Von Andech dies at his castle above Slovenj Gradec. Earliest written mention of Gu{tanj, nowadays Ravne na Koro{kem. Siegfrid von Marenberk and his mother Gisela establish a Dominican nunnery in Marenberk (Radlje). Berthold V. Andech, the patriarch of Aquileja, consecrates the church of St. Elisabeth (sv. Elizabeta) in Slovenj Gradec. Earliest mention of Ribnica na Pohorju in cadastral documents. Ulrik III. von Spanheim acquires the municipal rights for Slovenj Gradec. The Habsburgs take over the region (until 1918). Earliest mention of Mislinja. Earliest mention of church of Virgin Mary at Jezero (historical center of Prevalje). Earliest report of lead ore under mount Peca in the notes of Carinthian duke Ernest the Iron. The Turks burn and rob in Carinthia. The first peasant uprising in Carinthia. Matija Korvin’s Hungarian army devastates the castles of Slovenj Gradec and Ravne. Carinthian land representatives build strongholds against the Turks (“tur{ke {ance”) at the entrance to the Me`i{ka dolina valley. Carinthian peasant rebellion. The division of the vast Habsburg property between sons of Ferdinand I. finally establishes historical borders of the socalled Inner-Austrian lands: Carinthia (Koro{ka), Styria ([tajerska) and Carniola (Kranjska). Earliest mention of the ironworks in Muta Consecration of the church of St. Ursula (sv. Ur{ula) at Ur{lja gora. Melhior Puc from the Lavanttal valley settles in ^rna and starts digging iron ore in Javorje. The beginnings of iron smelting in the Me`i{ka dolina valley. Hans Sigmund Ottenfels gets permission to dig lead ore. The Prevalje (Gu{tanj) vicar Ga{per Pilat establishes a student scholarship fund. The beginning of iron making in Mislinja. The Le{e manuscript is written. The counts Thurn of Bleiburg build an ironwork plant in Mu{enik. Kaiser Joseph II. disbands the convents (Dominican nuns leave Marenberk). Napoleon annexes Carinthia to the so-called Illyrian provinces. Bla` Mayer discovers layers of brown coal at Le{e. The Rosthorn brothers establish a zinc plant in Prevalje, some years later they re-direct to ironworks. The counts Thurn manufacture, later world-wide famous, special kinds of steel at the Ravne ironworks. The construction of the road through Huda luknja gorge connects Koro{ka with central Slovenia. A. M. Slom{ek’s work in Vuzenica. Avgust Rosthorn’s (Prevalje ironworks) patent for use of brown coal at gaining steel caused complete turnover in European ironworks industry. The Koro{ka part of the southern railway across the Dravska dolina valley through Dravograd is built. The Prevalje ironworks stop working; the whole production is transferred to the Upper-Austrian town Donawitz. The socalled Mislinja railway between Dravograd and Velenje is built. The Josipdol glass works stop working; the production is re-directed to quarry. The dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. On December 1st, Koro{ka becomes a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The fights for the northern border. The plebiscite result divides Koro{ka into the Austrian and the (smaller) Yugoslavian (Slovenian) part. Libeli~e is connected to its native country. The brown-coal mines at Le{e are abandoned. The final battles of World War II in Europe take place in Poljana near Prevalje, from 8th till 15th May. Gu{tanj is renamed Ravne na Koro{kem; it becomes a town. General secretary of the UN denominates Slovenj Gradec - Peace messenger city. Hard fights of the independence war at border crossings of Holmec and Dravograd. Slovenian joining the European union symbolically re-unites the two parts of Koro{ka (Carinthia) after 84 years. Dravograd, Me`ica and Prevalje are granted town charters.

Koro{ka – the colourful valleys

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oro{ka (Carinthia) comprises three valleys – the Me`i{ka dolina, the Dravska dolina and the Mislinjska dolina valleys, and three mountain ranges – the Pohorje, the Karavanke and the Savinjske Alpe, that mark the landscape with an independent originality and solidity. A little above a thousand square kilometres and some more than 74 000 inhabitants put this region amongst the smallest in Slovenia. It is also one of the oldest Slovenian industrial regions. The previous centuries gave start to mining in the area (the beginnings of mining allegedly go back to the Roman era); and afterwards ironworks and wood industry have fluorished here. Today we are trying to present the work of

miners, crofters, charcoal-burners, raftsmen, carpenters and blacksmiths most authentically and vivaciously as an important part of our heritage.

The charm of Koro{ka is therefore held not by the glorious monuments but the small treasures, moulded in nature or by man, or by them both.

The wholeness of the mountain nature and the woods with an extensive net of mountain roads are offering a wide choice of discovering strolls to the peaks of Peca and Raduha and in the wide vastness of Ur{lja gora, Ol{eva, the Smrekovec, the west Pohorje and the Kozjak range; as well as to the slopes of picturesque alpine valleys. You will find the stops in these routes equally beautiful and exciting as the natives, the proud heirs of “the selfsown”, welcome you with their rough, but kind-hearted hospitality.

There are many treasures, scattered over the hidden nooks of villages and nearby mountain valleys under mighty peaks. Koro{ka, in words of its regular explorers and adrenalin-enjoyers, is “an originality of small treasures and nooks in wilderness in the middle of industrial world – as if it were at the end of the world when it actually is at the cross-road of Europe”. You are invited to find out more about this original and colourful world!

Mountains

Forests inquisitive mountaineers with a special charm of wilderness, offering to disclose around 400 million years old tracks of the Tetis ocean bumping into the rocks of Peca.

The nature presented Slovenia with woods more generously than most European countries. In this view Koro{ka is one of the chosen lands and as such a precious pearl in the mosaic of Slovenia. Nowadays, when people run from the urban centres as ecological-tourist emmigrants, looking for health and peace of the soul in places with a lot of woods, this fact has a special importance.

Attractive blossoms of rare and endangered alpine plants fascinate those who go to mountains to invigorate their body as well as their soul.

The woods of Koro{ka are special for a significant outline of the dark green of spruce, in hights thinned by larch-trees. These are the perfect home of a most remarkable, but highly endangered inhabitant of the wood – the heath-cock.

Capercaillie

There is no other place you can listen to its significant woos as much as here. The vastness of the west Pohorje also belongs to Koro{ka. The woods there are dark and deep, at places almost impassable primeval forests; mostly overgrown by conifers. A majestic Sgerm’s spruce grows on Ribni{ko Pohorje and, with its 61,8 m, it is the highest tree in Central Europe. People of Koro{ka think of the tree as an ancient symbol of life. The old farmhouses in Koro{ka are therefore

King Matja`’s cave

There is one more gem hidden in our mountains. Where the Karavanke range in the east rise up to the sky, a valley of unique beauty and charm extends under the mighty walls of Peca – the Regional park of Topla. A lover of nature’s foot stops and his heart jumps when his eye is trying to catch, at least for a moment, the uniqueness of soft beards of mountain grassland and the freedom of morning views.

Najevska lipa lime-tree

Sundew

The mountains of Koro{ka are significant for the whiteness of their sun-lit rocks and the softness of the hill-sides. The peaks are therefore offering relaxing views of the quiet valleys, the dark green of the vast woods and the fleeting sparks of water drops. This mountain area also attracts

Regional park of Topla

Koro{ka is amongst the most mountainous Slovenian regions. 90 percent of the land is covered by gradients, mostly pre-Alpine hills. The greatest and most frequently visited mountain peaks here are Peca, Raduha and Ur{lja gora, while Ol{eva is less visited and so even more attractive.

Pohorje forest

Alpine primrose

The southern aspect of Peca

surrounded by magnificent lime-trees, growing there for hundreds of years as a pride of the farmers and a prominent ornament of the land. The most special amongst them is “the mother of all Slovenian limetrees”, over 770 years old Najevska lipa lime-tree. Its voluminousness as well as the interesting story about its beginning as a marker for a burried Turkish treasure have made it famous and Slovenian politicians have now been annually meeting around it.

Waters

Solitary farms Koro{ka is a unique, autochthonous world of solitary farms dispersed across the sunny highland. The land between Ol{eva, the Dravsko polje field and the Austrian border is the largest area of solitary farms in Slovenia. Shingle covered farmhouses together with other farm buildings are crowded on steep slopes, appearing like small settlements. People here call them “celk”. Many generations had to put a lot of hard work, inventiveness and folkarchitectural creativity into them because of remoteness and meanness of the land. Therefore many archaic signatures of folk architecture from the 17th century have been kept until today. Such are, before all, wooden granaries – functionally designed buildings with exceptional artistic decorations – usually independent buildings used for keeping cereals, flour and meat. There are also “black kitchens”, mills, saw-mills and often even small forges. And, not last, pushed to the edge of the property there are small cottages for the subsistent, the aged farmers and the decrepit farmhands.

The Drava river

The Jane`’s farm at Strojna

Unseparable on slopes of Koro{ka, woods and brooks indicate the true culture of a country, as the ecologists say. These examples of genuine symbiosis, pampering our lungs, eyes and soul, are numerous here: Sedelnikov slap and Bo`i~ev slap waterfalls, Votla pe~, ^rno jezerce lake at the top of the Krnes hill, Ribni{ko jezero and Lovren{ka jezera lakes... Ribni{ko jezero lake

Shingle roof

Ivar~ko jezero lake

Rapids of the Mislinja river

Ancient farm work customs like steljaraja, jaj~arija, gnojvo`a, elsewhere long forgotten, are still kept on these farms. People on these farms can still tell many tales about goblins, giants and other local fairies like prekmandelc, ajdi, {kopnek, gozdni mo`, `al `ene and divja jaga. Their ancestors knew how to bring home spirituality and joy of the aesthetic.

mysterious springs, hidden gorges and strates and silent little lakes are some of the countless water forms. From the nearby mountain peaks and hills all of them flow towards and join in the lazy, dreamy Drava river. Fishing, rowing, rafting and meditating on the banks are some of the relaxing activities for your body and soul.

Knowing all these things nobody will marvel over ancient local stories about magical springs of “live” water healing every disease, bringing back the youth and turning away death. The most famous of the springs with such pure, alkaline and non-sulfuric water is the Rimski vrelec spring near Kotlje.

Living by and of the woods their carved or painted front doors, cupboards, sideboards and chests are still a proof of their skill. These farmhouses are also famous for their excellent home cuisine, their first-class, sweet and sharp, cider, and the matchless views of the country below.

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Waterfall on Smrekovec slope

Interesting waterfalls, skipping and purling cascades, refreshingly cool wells, pools like from a fairyland,

Granary

Koro{ka fence

Odomovo jezero lake at Kapla on Kozjak

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The cultured landscape

Sacral monuments

Vuzenica

Slovenj Gradec

St. Wolfgang and St. Anne at Le{e

Libeli~e ossuary

St. Vitus (sv. Vid) in Dravograd

St. John the Baptist (sv. Janez Krstnik) at Muta

Rotenturn manor

Picturesque and heterogeneous architecture of succursal churches, put up on practically every exposed height, can be seen either from the valley or of a mountain range. This diversity mirrors many autochtonous features, characteristic for the country of Koro{ka, placing it among the most culturally attractive parts of Slovenia. The earliest sacral monuments preserved in this area date from times of Christianization of Slovenes. Foundations of an

(sv. Janeza Krstnika) in Spodnja Muta. The church of St. Pancras (sv. Pankracij) at Grad above Stari trg near Slovenj Gradec from around 1240 is an exceptional and distiguished monument. There are few churches of the Gothic architectural style from the 15th and the 16th century that are preserved in their original medieval form such as the prominent twin churches of St. Wolfgang (sv. Volbenk) and St. Anne (sv. Ana) in Le{e above Prevalje, and the

Radlje nunnery

Holy Spirit (sv. Duh) in Slovenj Gradec

St. Anthony (sv. Anton) in Ravne na Koro{kem

St. George (sv. Jurij) at Legen

Ravne Castle

St- Bartholomew (sv. Jernej) in Ribnica na Pohorju

St. Rocus (sv. Rok) at Sele

St. John (sv. Janez) in [entjan` nad Drav~ami

Old Christian chapel and tombs inside the church of St. George (sv. Jurij) at Legen from the first half of the 9th century are the only material proof of early Christian communities in the territory of the one-time great Caranthania. Most churches have a 12th- or 13thcentury core, and romanesque belfries with choirlofts are a local particularity. The architecture of the church of St. Vitus (sv. Vid) in Dravograd, the earliest documented example (from 1177) of this type of architecture in Slovenia, is extremely loquacious. Rotundas used to stand inward the churchyards; the former were usually simple, but sometimes storeyed ossuaries with a circular ground plan, such as is the ossuary in Libeli~e near Dravograd from the first half of the 13th century, and the even more remarkable and ambitiously designed round church of St. John the Baptist

hospital church of the Holy Spirit (sv. Duh) in Slovenj Gradec. The rest of the churches’ medieval architectural partition is concealed by baroque reconstructions; only as local particularities there are some Gothic presbyteries with low outer pillars still preserved. The taste of the old-fashioned conservatism conveying respect of the traditional values has also been responsible for the outward form of the church with the greatest height above sea level in Slovenia.

St. Ursula (sv. Ur{ula) at Ur{lja gora

the “fashionable” influences – that have been re-forming hamlets in the valley – could not reach them.

Among many castles that had once been a decoration to the coloured Mislinjska and Dravska dolina valleys only town manor Rotenturn in Slovenj Gradec and Bukovje manor near Dravograd have avoided the consequences of time and the flames of World War II.

Rem{nik

In 1602 the neighbouring farmers, with a generous donation of the bishop of Ljubljana, Toma` Hren, finished the church of St. Ursula (sv. Ur{ula) on Ur{lja gora. Since then it has been the mother of all churches of Koro{ka, dominating on the 1696 metres high solitary Karavanke mountain.

St. Pancras (sv. Pankracij) above Stari trg Black Mary in the church of St. Anne in Koprivna

Ivy-overgrown and demolished walls of the most ancient and later abandoned castles in Koro{ka awaken imagination. Images of mighty aristocrats, the counts Ande{ki and Vuzeni{ki, as well as the bishops of Bamberg and their Gu{tanj ministry, who, foremost in the 13th century, made the local history, raise in our minds. The earliest remnants, from the 11th century, can be found on castle hill above Stari trg pri Slovenj Gradcu and near Ir{tajn on Pa{ki Kozjak, more recent are those above Dravograd, Vuzenica and Radlje; the most picturesque and still magnificent are the ruins of Vodri` Castle in the middle of the woods below Ur{lja gora. Barely healed wounds of the 15th century’s violent wars for succession and the 16th century’s religious discords enabled generous renaissance and baroque architecture to prosper and leave their mark on numerous country castles and mansions. The most important and the most beautiful among them is Ravne Castle, made even more attractive by a large English park, planted by the counts Thurn at the end of the 19th century.

Kotlje

Dravograd

Antique hamlets, originally emerging from the high hill-sides which sheltered the first settlements, spreaded towards the valleys and are still a part of the cultured country. The densely overbuilt settlements in the valleys have, through centuries, taken the role of local administration centres, while the town of Slovenj Gradec, especially since 13th century, has developed into a greater, regional administration centre. The townplanning, keeping the historical core inside the frames of a medieval town wall, has successfully kept the integrity of the town’s image. The secondary settling of the hills is more recent; small “islands” of solitary farms in the middle of woods are significant. These remote and almost inaccessible farms have kept their archaic originality until today, as

St. Leonard (sv. Lenart) at Plat

Traditional creativity

Artistic expressions front parts of beehives at Carinthian Regional Museum (Koro{ki pokrajinski muzej). The skills of wood carvers and other traditional home manufacturers, particularly wickerworkers, blacksmith artsmen and sellers of honey and sweetmeats made with honey, have not only survived the centuries, but have, through various kinds of entertainment and shows, especially with Slovene biennial exhibition of Arts and Crafts in Slovenj Gradec, been raised to a mastery. A more ambitious fine-arts heritage can be found in parish churches of the

The rich tradition dictated the modern cultural development: already before World War II the Slovenj Gradec vicar Jakob Sokli~ opened the first public museum in Koro{ka and after the war sponsored the raising of Koro{ka Art Gallery. While its international collection comprises works of many foreign masters of modern art, a special attention is paid to local artists: the pioneer of modern Slovene statuary, Fran Berneker, and highly valued modern artists such as Bogdan Bor~i~ , Karel Pe~ko, Andrej Gro{elj, Anton Repnik, Naca Rojnik, Sa{o Vrabi~ and the authentically original Jo`e Tisnikar. Gallery of Fine Arts in Slovenj Gradec

Fronts of beehives in ^arf’s collection

Honey - bread bakery Perger

Forge

Painted ceiling of the Vuzenica vicarage

Work of folk-carver Gregor Lipovnik Tisnikar’s Crow

Painted ceiling in the church of Holy Spirit above Dravograd

Park of sculptures at [tibuh

valley market-towns and towns. The medieval town of Slovenj Gradec prospered with well-known carving workshops in the baroque 17th and especially in the 18th centuries, when important artistic and applied-art workshops of the Scobl, Strauss and Mersi families operated here.

Internationally renowned sculptors’ symposium Forma Viva used to represent the centre of artistic life in Ravne. In decades after World War II, under patronage of the Ravne ironworks, it contributed a collection of

Karel Pe~ko

Anton Repnik

thirty monumental steel statuaries that mean an enlivenment of the urban environment of the Me`i{ka dolina valley. Many important local and foreign artists’ sculptures can also be found at selected Slovenj Gradec outdoor ambiences.

carvings made by folkcarvers, such as was Gregor Lipovnik from Dobrije.

A sensitive spiritual heritage and an invaluable historical memory have also interweaved the work of Koro{ka literary and musical giants: Pre`ihova bajta cottage above Kotlje invites us to the world of Lovro Kuhar, the writer; Sele under Ur{lja gora are an idyllically remote village, once home to Franc Ksaver Me{ko, the writer; the loquacity of the middle-class atmosphere of the house in Slovenj Gradec in which Hugo Wolf, the famous solo composer, was born. Their followers, Dr. Franc Su{nik, Leopold Suhodol~an, Janez Mrdav{i~ and Lojze Lebi~, the composer, have brought the recognizable idiom of Koro{ka to present time; though the charm of the times gone by and the still present relics of the past are most authentically, and immediately, echoed in the lyrical and melancholic folk songs, in the words of the original self-taught authors (“bukovniki”), such as was Bla` Mavrel from Strojna, and the alluring dialect of the

Forma Viva in Ravne

Strategic position of the drafty borderland between Koro{ka and [tajerska has always been dictating a vivacious cultural and artistic circulation. Echoes of the great northern and south-western centres’ artistic achievements were here additionally refined by a rich local tradition, turning up with quite original results. Simple folk-painters and carvers have decorated not only the succursal country churches’ altars, but also numerous marks and small chapels on the paths between solitary Koro{ka farms; and they still use the typical old samples and patterns. Once every apiary in Koro{ka used to have decorated front parts of beehives; today these decorations represent a treasure-house of folk-motives – they keep a rich collection of decorated

Technical heritage

Museums and collections Carinthian Regional Museum with its two divisions – one in Ravne, the other in Slovenj Gradec – provides public services with all the fundamental museum departments for keeping and preserving the mobile cultural heritage of the region, with many collections scattered across all the communities of Koro{ka.

Hugo Wolf’s birthplace

Technical heritage is a part of industrial heritage that keeps the memory of historical tools, machines and other devices used for extraction of lead in the mountain chain of Peca, from the 17th to the 20th century, and for extraction of brown coal in Le{e, from 1822 to 1935. It also reminds us of forging of nails, wiredrawing, production of iron and steel, scythes, plough tails, ploughshares, axes, hoes and other tools, used by inhabitants of ^rna, Me`ica, Ravne na Koro{kem, Muta and Mislinja in the 17th and the 18th centuries. The preserved work units and machines bear witness of technical and technological achievements of the ironworks and steelworks in the 19th and the 20th centuries in Koro{ka, of use of brown coal at gaining steel, of the Rosthorns ironworks’ production of rails for railways in surroundings of Vienna and northern Italy, of the Thurns steelworks’ high-quality steel, which is still world-wide known, of raft transport along the Drava river, of railway conveyance to Maribor (built in 1863) and to Velenje (built in 1899). Abandoned buildings, together with other preserved material evidence, tell about the left off work units, such as blast-furnace in Sv. Primo` (1782–1833), glassworks and glass furnace in Hudi Kot and Josipdol (1799–1908), and trade sawmills, impelled by water power, that have been a part of the timber industry since World War II.

Contracting plant at Ravne ironworks

Steam locomotive (from 1927) in Dravograd

Carinthian Regional Museum Peca Underground ^rna mining collection Javnik museum of woodrafting Muta forging, casting and fire fighting museum Josipdol stonecutting and glazier’s trade museum

Koro{ka cesta 14, Ravne na Koro{kem Glan~nik 8, Me`ica Center 100, ^rna na Koro{kem Javnik 6, Podvelka Glavni trg 17, Muta Josipdol Hall

Burjak’s mill in Topla

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There is a long tradition of public libraries in Koro{ka; National reading clubs were set up here as early as the 1870’s. Today the Dr. Franc Su{nik Central Carinthian Library, situated in restored premises of Ravne Castle, can pride itself upon an accomplished l ocal collection and over 250.000 units of material.

Pre`ihova bajta cottage

The Sokli~ museum

Carinthian Regional Museum - the archaeology of the Koro{ka region Museum collections in the castle of Ravne (iron making, mining, forestry and logging collections, ethnological collection and lapidary) Pre`ihova bajta cottage, Pre`ih memorial museum The Sokli~ Museum The Counts of Andech and Slovenj Gradec, permanent exhibition The church of St. George (sv. Jurij) at Legen The Pau~ek partisan hospitals Food culture of t he Libeli~e locals and their surroundings, Rural collectoin and the Carinthian Plebiscite Fishing Museum Gestapo prison museum collection Dravograd at the trail junction, permanent exhibition ^rna ethnologic collection Dvornik farm museum Antiques museum collection of F. Leitinger Private antiques collection of Alojz Grubelnik Slom{ek’s room in the parsonage of Vuzenica

Collection in Libeli~e

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Koro{ka Gallery of Fine Arts Gallery in Ravne castle The dr. Stane Strnad gallery Kolar gallery Mladinska knjiga gallery The Anton Repnik gallery [tiblc gallery Forma viva - Ravne na Koro{kem

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Enriching knowledge

[topar’s bridge

Peca underground

Woodrafting on the Drava The first written documents that mention rafting work on the Drava are from 1280. Rafting work was the most important economic branch in the 19th and the 20th centuries in the Dravska dolina valley. Then raftsmen (flosarji) conveyed wood along the river all the way to Hungary, Serbia and Rumania. Their work was tiresome and dangerous because of their bold fighting against the whirls, but it was well-paid. The bygone water adventures are today made safe for you to experience them on real rafts, made specially for tourist rafting on the Drava. The rafting includes a rich entertainment and music programme.

Miner’s train

Wulfenit mineral

There has been a long history of mining in Koro{ka, as its beginnings descend from 1665. Me`ica lead and zinc mine is amongst the oldest mines in this part of Europe; mining between Peca and Ur{lja gora went on for over 330 years. Miners dug up over 1.000 kilometres of galleries and shafts. Today’s generations are therefore left with a rich technical, natural and cultural heritage to offer it, properly arranged, to tourists. The 3,5 km long Glan~nik shaft leads visitors to the heart of Peca, where a tourist guide shows them around, presenting the image of the miners’

work from the beginnings of mining to the closure of the mine. There is a settled area in the mine intended for occasional concerts and other cultural performances. There is a rich collection of crockeries, minerals, miners’ photographies and other objects together with a miner’s appartment of the period between the World Wars, situated in an old mining management building in front of the entrance to the mine.

Raftsmen

Miner’s apartments in the mining museum

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Glan~nik 8, 2392 Me`ica T: +386 2 870 01 80, F: +386 2 870 01 65 E: [email protected] I: www.podzemljepece.com

The Drava river

Museum of woodrafting The mining museum in front of the entrance to the mine

divja jaga, ajd, {kopnek, lintver, gozdni mo` and `al `ena. Where primeval eroticism, that drove The Pre`ih’s SelfSown into fatal relations, fights and decisions, trickles through.

Cave goblin – Perkmandlc

Gozdni mo` (a mythological creature)

Experience

This is a place you cannot find in a map, but you can experience it in The King Matja` Park.

There is a place where time not only stops, but runs backwards. Where worries go on leave. Where only ants know about the afternoon traffic jams near a decayed stump. Where fantasy and reality cooperate in a symbiosis, so that you can learn all about goblins and giants: perkmandelc, {krat,

Party on a raft

The tourist village of Javnik keeps a unique museum in Slovenia – an authentically preserved rafter’s house that illustrates the typical life of the raftsmen and foresters. Visiting the museum you will be able to catch a glimpse of the history of rafting on the Drava. The stories of raftsmen’s everyday life will disclose to you the typical instruments and tools for bringing in wood, and the documents bearing witness to a lively wood trade.

Koro{ki splavarji (Raftsmen of Koro{ka) Gortina rafting quay T:+386 2 87 23 333, F:+386 2 87 23 337 E: [email protected], I:www.splavarji.com

Dravski splavarji (Raftsmen of Drava) Javnik museum and rafting quay T: +386 41 570 028, F: +386 2 87 69 801 E: [email protected], I:www.flosar.com

Entertainment

Tourist mine and Museum

A demo of mining

Hiking

Climbing The woods in hills and mountains of Koro{ka are overspread with cart tracks and forest roads, suitable for all visitors. Panoramic ridges are accessible with pathways that most times lead to the best viewpoints.

Except on special occasions you will not meet many alpinists, there is more Pohorje

Alpine climbing Variegated and stiff mountain walls of Raduha and Peca have been attracting local researchers of the “nonprofitable” world. Experiences of these rocks that consequently took them to the world peaks, and their stories, attract many foreign alpinists to our mountains.

On a forest trail

Huda luknja

Klub 24 – Mountaineer challenge of Koro{ka

Huda luknja is undoubtedly one of the greatest natural places worth seeing around here. There are constant speleological researches and tourist visits to the cave, and, recently, in Christmas season also the performance “Live Christmas crib” – @ive jaslice.

The most enduring and daring mountaineers who conquer over 80 km long path of ascents to Ur{lja gora, Smrekovec, Raduha, Ol{eva and Peca in less than 24 hours, become a member of the K24 club. Information: www.obcinacrna.eu/klub24

Free climbing Free climbing has become a very popular sport without age limits, as it is supposed to be quite safe, if you regard its rules. There are many high quality places for climbing in Koro{ka: Burjakove pe~i in the Topla valley, Matvoz in Javorje, [tenge above Me`ica, Kot above Prevalje, Votla pe~ near Ravne na Koro{kem, Zabri~nikova pe~, climb Sele and Kalvarija and Perkolica near Radlje ob Dravi. The Burjakove pe~i climb with its height and quality of rock is special for Slovene standards. There is also one of the largest boulder climbs in the Topla valley.

Kamen

Borderline mountain path

Cider road

A belvedere at Rem{nik

chance of meeting wild animals on our paths. To drop a hint: they say animals and plants can feel whether you have bad intentions, as well as they can feel your wish for pleasure.

Mt. Peca

THEME ROUTES

Cottage industry path The Me{ko path Ple{ivec forest and tourist path The path to Rahtelov vrh The Pu{~avnik path The Berneker path The Roman path Hiking path Ti~nica Path to Goblinland TIC Slovenj Gradec I: www.slovenjgradec.si, T: +386 2 8812116

Dravograd

Movement

Forest learning path - Castle; The heart path The Dravograd – Ko{enjak – Sv. Urban border panoramic path Libeli~e ethnologic-naturalistic path “The horned owl” TIC Dravograd I: www.dravograd.si, T: +386 2 8710285

Muta Muta transverzal Forest learning path Gra{in Giant lime-trees path Ob~ina Muta I: www.muta.si, T: +386 2 8879600

Ravne na Koro{kem The Voranc path Forest learning path The ironworker’s path Cider road Maglaj path TIC Ravne na Koro{kem I: www.ravne.si/tic, T: +386 2 8221219

Prevalje On the footsteps of Le{e miners - learning path I: www.lese.si, T: +386 2 8233135 Milling path Reaction path I: www.sentanel.si, T: +386 2 8233258 Cider road Sadjarsko dru{tvo Me`i{ke doline I: www.alppeca.si, T: +386 41 620631

Mislinja Mislinjsko Pohorje hiking paths Path across Zavr{e TIC Slovenj Gradec I: www.slovenjgradec.si, T: +386 2 8812116

Me`ica Peaks of Me`ica Ob~ina Me`ica T: +386 2 8279350, I: www.mezica.si

^rna na Koro{kem Teber forest learning path TIC Park kralja Matja`a I: www.crna.si, T: +386 2 8238269

Vuzenica Pistrov grad forest learning path TIC Vuzenica I: www.vuzenica.si, T: +386 2 8791220

Huda luknja cave

Mountain hut at Ur{lja gora

MOUNTAIN HUTS

Radlje ob Dravi

Mountain hut

Height above MSL

Number of beds

Telephone

Stari grad forest learning and historic path Ob~ina Radlje ob Dravi I: www.obcina-radlje.si, T: +386 2 8879630

Dom na Peci

1.665

81

+386 2 8238406

Ko~a na Pikovem

+386 2 8238525

Josipdol

922

4

Ko~a v Grohotu pod Raduho

1.460

50

+386 41 690011

Dom na Smrekovcu

1.377

33

+386 3 5841588

Dom na Ur{lji gori

1.680

36

+386 5 0612586

805

25

+386 2 8221002 +386 2 8221055

Kapelvald forest learning path Ob~ina Ribnica na Pohorju KET Josipdol I: www.josipdol.si, T: +386 2 8768313

Smu~arska ko~a nad Ravnami

Podvelka Forest learning path Rde~i Breg Panoramic trail at Kapla Heart trail at Kapla Ob~ina Podvelka, T: +386 2 8769510

805

30

Ko~a na Naravskih ledinah

1.072

13

+386 2 8221001

Grmov{kov dom pod Veliko Kopo

1.377

68

+386 2 8839860

Partizanski dom na Kopah

1.450

70

+386 41 730723

Ko~a pod Krem`arjevim vrhom

1.102

26

+386 2 8844883

Ko~a Planinc, Primo` na Pohorju

1.010

20

+386 40 398080

Planinska ko~a na Pesniku

1.101

15

+386 2 8768500

Planinski dom Ko{enjak

1.169

55

+386 2 8783504

Ribni{ka ko~a

1.530

72 + 18

+386 2 8768246

Po{tarski dom pod Ple{ivcem

Free climbing in Topla

Slovenj Gradec

Challenge

The European pathway E6 runs over the country of Koro{ka. Alpinists like to follow the Slovene mountain transversal and go for a hike to the much liked viewpoint peaks of Kozjak, Pohorje, Ur{lja gora, Smrekovec and to some more difficult ascents to Peca, Ol{eva and Raduha.

Biking

Flying Mountain bike Park ^rna na Koro{kem

Slovenj Gradec airport

Information: Bike Hotel -Tourist farm Koro{ T: + 386 2 87 03 060 I: www.mtbpark.com

Slovenj Gradec airport in the Mislinjska dolina valley has a 1.200 metres long and 23 metres wide asphalt runway. They offer flights with different kinds of planes and a possibility of private, business and freight transport with their planes at home and abroad. Panoramic flights are organized at request. The airport educates power plane sports pilots, ultralight power plane pilots and glider pilots according to all internationally valid modern standards. Surroundings of the airport offer great conditions for gliding, it also welcomes parachutists and plane modellers. Visitors interested in the history of flying will be content to see some real old-timer planes. Near the airport it is possible to stay in hotels, bungalows and at campsite. Information: Aerodrom Slovenj Gradec d.o.o., Mislinjska Dobrava 110, 2383 [martno pri Sl. Gradcu T: + 386 2 88 50 500 F: + 386 2 88 50 510 I: www.aerodrom-sg.si

There are many mountain valleys rising up towards Alpine in this part of Karavanke mountains, while many forests with a ramified net of forest roads and cart tracks offer almost unlimited possibility for mountain biking. Therefore the emergence of the first Slovenian mountain bike park right here is obvious. Marked with animal footprints and in guidebooks described biking routes are named The wild tracks. The biking centre also offers guided tours, competitions organization, rent-a-bike and transport by a bike shuttle. 

I:www.mtbkoroska.net www.podzemljepece.com

Drava international cycling path

Pohorje Biking transversal

Aero Expo at the Slovenj Gradec airport

A biking route across the ridges of Pohorje connects its eastern and western sides. Biking routes from all larger centres around Pohorje are attached to this transversal. TIC Slovenj Gradec T: +386 2 88 12 116 I: www.slovenjgradec.si

Kundi’s biking routes

Exploring

This route across vivid country by the Drava leads us through the old market core of Dravograd and the vast woods of Pohorje. Drava international cycling path is a part of European biking routes net that in Slovenia runs from Dravograd towards Maribor with possibility of proceeding over the Radelj pass to Styria in Austria. Information: TIC Dravograd T: + 386 2 87 10 285 I: www.dravograd.si

Slovenj Gradec airport

From Prevalje there are marked routes towards Le{e, [entanel, Strojna, Dolgo Brdo and towards Strojna green circle called On the routes of Bla` Mavrel. Some of these routes – circles – can be combined, which enables you to get to know the surroundings of Prevalje with magnificent panoramic views of Koro{ka mountains and valleys. Information: Kolesarski servis in trgovina Enduro T: + 386 2 82 31 689 I: www.kundi.org

Mountain bike trail around mt. ur{lja gora

A mountain bike trail runs along the local and forest lanes which link hamlets and farms spread around Mt. Ur{lja Gora. The trail starts at the Ivar~ko Lake, a popular tourist recreational centre, and it is linked to other paths from surrounding places in the Me`a and Mislinja Valleys. TIC Ravne na Koro{kem T: +386 2 82 21 219 I: www.ravne.si/tic

Libeli~e airfield

A flight from Ur{lja gora

Libeli~e airfield

Paragliding

Libeli~e airfield has become a meeting place of many kinds of unusual sports as it offers the needed spaciousness for ultra-light plane flights, schooling of pilots and parachute landings; it is used by plane modellers, in winter by kiteboarders for its windiness, and by all others, looking for an interesting and well-kept place for active relaxation with their company. Near the airfield it is possible to camp or to rent a cottage. Information: Avio Fun Koro{ka, Libeli~e 18, 2372 Libeli~e T: +386 3 89 87 170, F: +386 3 89 87 180, I: www.aviofun.com

Some of the most attractive starting points for paragliders in Koro{ka are Pernice, Rahtel, O{ven, Ur{lja gora, Krem`arica, Peca and Ol{eva. The ^uk paragliders school of Koro{ka offers to organize tandem paragliding and instructs glider pilots . Information: www.pgal.net

Boundlessness

Attentiveness and inclination of people towards mountain biking is another characteristic of Koro{ka. The woods here are overspread with roads, cart tracks and paths that are advantageous for bikers. You just turn the pedals a few times, and already you are enjoying a ride through orchards, fields and woods on the way toward highmountain huts or viewpoints. There is one more specialty! Though mountain bikes are made for plodding delights on the surface of the mountains – here you can even experience biking through a mountain – across abandoned, mysterious mining galleries under Peca.

Winter

Winter

Skiing Snow falls already in November and stays until the late spring in Koro{ka. All seasons have their special charms here, but some people believe the winter’s thick white blanket brings its greatest magic. There is a pearl glow of snow-crystals reflecting sunrays in a gamut of colours, while brooks are

Ski tours Ski touring terrenes in winter are an experience of silent excitements in the middle of heights, a drop of Alpine exotic and challenge under peaks of Peca, Raduha and Ol{eva (each over 2000 m above sea level). enchained in sparkling ice. “Winters are the most tender in Koro{ka,” wrote somebody who travelled all over the world. Ski slopes of the Pohorje, Peca and Ur{lja gora, as well as those in the valleys, offer a lot of joy to the more and the less experienced skiers and families with children. The largest ski centre in Koro{ka is Kope at the utmost western and the highest part of the

Length of ski trails

GORSKI TURISTI^NI CENTER KOPE

1.010 - 1.542 m

8.000 m 1.540 m 4.200 m

POSEKA RAVNE NA KORO[KEM

400 - 550 m

1.700 m

495 - 558 m

713 m 3.000 m

2 ski tows

night skiing, ski school

2 ski tows

children’s slope

quad chairlift + 1 ski tow

night skiing

Tel: +386 2 8223332 • www.sportravne.si

1 ski tow

night skiing

1 ski tow

night skiing, ski school, children’s slope

1 ski tow

night skiing, ski school

Tel: +386 41 432839 • www.smucisce-bukovnik.com

BUKOVNIK [ENTJAN@

600 - 700 m

night skiing, equipment rental, ski school

Tel: +386 2 8703066 • www.crna.si

^RNA NA KORO[KEM

575 - 790 m

quad chairlift + 6 ski tows 

Tel: +386 41 711106 • www.dr7.si

RIMSKI VRELEC KOTLJE SKI SLOPES

Winter excitement

2.800 m

400 m

I: www.mislinja.si

Tel: +386 2 8822740 • www.pohorje.org • www.kope.si

Tel: +386 2 8218470 • www.ivarcko.si

TRC IVAR^KO

638 - 1108 m

Extra offer

Tel: +386 2 2208856 • www.pohorje.org

RIBNI[KA KO^A

1368 - 1525

Artificial snow

Tel: +386 2 2208856 • www.pohorje.org

RIBNICA NA POHORJU

715 - 921 m

Ski lifts

The Mislinja ski-jumping centre can boast with a K-85 M, a K-65 M, a K31 M and a K-13 M ski jumps as well as with a new chairlift. The advantageous position of ski jumps ensures a long winter season. All the ski jumps are covered in plastic, therefore ski jumping here is possible in all seasons.

1 ski tow

night skiing, ski school

Cross-country skiing There is a variety of contest and recreational cross-country skiing lanes close to ski centres. C-C skiing lanes

Length

GTC Kope ^rna na Koro{kem [portni park Ravne TRC Ivar~ko Ribni{ka ko~a

8 km 3,5 + 10 km 3 km 0.7 + 3 km 6 km

The king Matja`’s Castles Each year last Saturday in January Podpeca shelters an original tourist entertainment with contest in building snow castles for king Matja`. Information: www.gradovikraljamatjaza.com

Winter excitement

Height above MSL

Mislinja ski-jumping centre

Pohorje. Spruce forests, sheltering solid farms of the Pohorje, stretch up to the peak, while the alpine meadows turn into ski trails in winter. ^rna na Koro{kem, with a ski slope extending almost to the centre of the village, is renowned by great skiers. The Austrian side of Peca includes the ski slopes with the greatest height above sea level (660 - 1.890 m) and 20 kilometres of attractive ski trails.

Holidays on farm

Traditional cuisine

You can experience this authentic environment with its well-kept farms in the famous tourist village of [entanel and its surrounding settlements. There are also other farm tourisms on the slopes of the Pohorje, the Kozjak and Ur{lja gora welcoming you warmly. At a tourist farm

Riding

There are many examples of traditional farm architecture well preserved in Koro{ka – from mighty farms (celki) with granaries, mills and sawmills to shacks with “black kitchens”, with their original inner and outer form introducing us to the the farm-work milieu and life that the works of Levovnik’s farm in [entjan` nad Drav~ami

Tourist farms with accommodation Bike nomad center - Tourist farm Koro{ Tourist farm Ravnjak Tourist farm Rotovnik - Plesnik Tourist farm Romantika Hof Tourist farm Pri Stojanu Tourist farm Klev` Tourist farm Marin Tourist farm Miklavc Ecological tourist farm Mikl Tourist farm O{ven Tourist farm Ploder Tourist farm Povh Ecological tourist farm Le{nik Tourist farm Lipovnik Tourist farm Lu`nik Tourist farm Kolman

fruit and the natural process of fermentation. As a real warm welcome the landlord will offer you a homemade brandy – it will often be the most appreciated and valued bilberry brandy (~rni~ov {nops), a litre of which demands as much as 22 kilograms of bilberries ...

Miner’s fare

Dainties of the Cesta mo{ta (Cider Road)

A pantry in Topla

[entanel Jamnica 10, 2391 Prevalje Sele 37, 2380 Slovenj Gradec Legen 134, 2383 [martno pri Slovenj Gradcu Ribnica na Pohorju 82, 2364 Ribnica na Pohorju Legen 178, 2383, [martno pri Slovenj Gradcu Legen 151, 2383 [martno pri Slovenj Gradcu [entanel 8a, 2391 Prevalje Zgornja Orlica 28, 2364 Ribnica na Pohorju Jamnica 11, 2391 Prevalje Ur{lja Gora 7a, 2390 Kotlje [entanel 3, 2391 Prevalje Dolga Brda 19, 2391 Prevalje Golavabuka 24, 2383 [martno pri Slovenj Gradcu Tolsti Vrh 14, 2390 Ravne na Koro{kem [entanel 10, 2391 Prevalje [entanel 4, 2391 Prevalje

Home-made rye bread

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20 beds 16 beds 15 beds 18 beds 20 beds 9 beds 21 + 5 beds 8 beds 13 beds 23 beds 29 beds 4 +8 beds 11 beds 6 beds 16 beds 12 beds

+386 2 8703060 +386 2 8223041 +386 2 8853666 +386 2 8768480 +386 2 8822120 +386 2 8853069 +386 2 8240550 +386 2 8768079 +386 2 8231985 +386 2 8222897 +386 2 8231104 +386 2 8233258 +386 41 453 326 +386 2 8213004 +386 2 8231105 +386 2 8231400

Libeli~e cooking

Invitation to a tasting of me`erli, as prepared in Libeli~e Ingredients: Lamb or veal heart and lights; 10 dag of white bread, cut into small cubes; 1 to 2 eggs, lard, milk, marjoram, onion, salt, pepper, cream. Preparation: Mince cooked pluck. Roast a chopped onion in lard. Soak bread cubes in milk and mix with eggs and minced pluck. Add spices: marjoram, the roasted onion, salt, pepper and some cream. Put this mixture in a baking tin and cover with the rest of the cream. Bake and serve with potato salad. (Recipe taken from Brigita Raj{ter’s “Libeli{ka kuharica” cook book)

Join the taste journey bravely!

Koro{ka culinary specialty – me`erli

Hospitality

Farm tourism at Ribnica na Pohorju

• Krofla riding club, Podpeca 43, ^rna na Koro{kem, T: +386 2 87 03 003 • Posestvo Podgorje 91 - Iceland horses, Podgorje pri Slovenj Gradcu, T: +386 41 619 621 • Jev{nik Farm - Iceland horses, Stra`e 125, Mislinja, T: +386 41 325 698

Natural, home-made and traditional are the words to describe the culinary art of Koro{ka. We are above all proud of our specific autochthonous food customs and dishes. They have their source in natural production and in the original traditional recipes. Therefore Koro{ka cuisine keeps many dishes that have been long forgotten elsewhere. The preparation of these dishes namely demands a lot of expertise, care and time. The housewives and landlords (birti) here still know how to cook klocavi nudlni (dried fruit noodles), {trukli (a special kind of dumplings), o`ejeni `ganki (hard-boiled corn mush), mav`eljni and me`erli (special dishes of Koro{ka) and grumpi (cracklings) that prompt the culinary experience already with their uncommon names. A specialty of Koro{ka is its famous black rye bread. It is made by an old unwritten recipe and baked in baker’s oven it still tastes the same even after a few days. Koro{ka is also famous for its delicious mo{t (cider), a traditional drink, made with fermentation of juice from old apple sorts. Its primary distinction is the use of ecological (non-sprinkled)

Natural

Pre`ihov Voranc very clearly describe. The local people saved many folk dances, songs and lores in the dialect of Koro{ka from oblivion. Here they still cultivate some folkloristic peculiarities, such as {itlni (shingles), steljaraja, jaj~arija, poj{tertanc, mo{t (cider) …

Accommodations

Communities of the Koro{ka region

Information about the possibility of accomodation on farms and in mountain huts can be found on the pages “HOLIDAYS

ON FARM” and “HIKING”.

^rna na Koro{kem Hotel ^rna Gosti{~e Pri Mojci

Center 153, 2393 ^rna Koprivna 46,2393 ^rna

[email protected] [email protected]

www.crna.si www.gostisceprimojci-kolar.si

48+7 beds 6+2 beds

+386 2 8704810 +386 2 8239215

Koro{ka cesta 48, 2370 Dravograd Oti{ki vrh 25/a, 2373 [entjan` pri Dravogradu Libeli{ka gora 34, 2372 Libeli~e

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

www.hesper.si www.korosica.si www.csod.si

63 beds 24 beds 54 + 4 beds

+386 2 8784440  +386 2 8786911 +386 2 8784051

Dravograd Hotel Hesper Restavracija Koro{ica C[OD Ajda Me`ica C[OD Peca

Breg 13, 2392 Me`ica

[email protected]

www.csod.si

64 + 3 beds

+386 2 8236184

Razborca 65, 2382 Mislinja Razborca 31, 2382 Mislinja

[email protected] [email protected]

www.vabo.si www.vabo.si

200 beds 35 beds

+386 2 8839850 +386 2 8839860

Mislinja Hotel Lukov dom Apartmaji Vabo

Sv.Jernej nad Muto, 2366 Muta Koro{ka cesta 16a, 2366 Muta

[email protected]

www.pri-izidorju.si

Pri Bran~urniku 1, 2391 Prevalje Poljana 10a, 2391 Prevalje [entanel 8, 2391 Prevalje

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

www.brancurnik.si

Dobja vas 119, 2390 Ravne na Koro{kem Tolsti vrh 171, 2390 Ravne na Koro{kem Podgora 1b, 2394 Kotlje

[email protected] [email protected]

www.gostisce-delalut.com

Mariborska cesta 8, 2360 Radlje ob Dravi Vuhred 45, 2365 Vuhred

[email protected] [email protected]

Hudi kot 13, 2364 Ribnica na Pohorju

[email protected]

20 beds 8 beds

+386 2 8763091 +386 2 8761182

6 + 3 beds 45 beds 18 beds

+386 2 8231000 +386 2 8240690 +386 2 8240550

36 beds 10 beds 12 beds

+386 2 8218240 +386 2 8213013 +386 2 8215320

45 beds 15 beds

+386 2 8769771 +386 2 8871637

6 - 8 beds

+386 3 1329971

Prevalje Gostilna Bran~urnik Gosti{~e Krivograd Gostilna Marin

www.marin.koroska.org

Ravne na Koro{kem Gosti{~e Delalut Apartmaji Krivograd Gostilna Dular

www.vabo.si

Ribnica na Pohorju Apartma Kru{i~ Slovenj Gradec Gorski turisti~ni center Kope Hotel Slovenj Gradec Hotel Aerodrom Avtokamp Aerodrom Gosti{~e Rahtel - Penzion Apartmaji Turi~nik Apartma Rozika Apartmaji in bungalovi Sne`inka in Zlatorog [entanel

DRAVOGRAD (area of 105 km2, 8.881 inhabitants, 362 m above sea level) The community is the geographical centre of three valleys: the Me`i{ka, the Mislinjska and the upper Dravska dolina valleys. Its principal town, Dravograd, has grown from an old market town under an ancient castle to a modern settlement, divided between the left and the right Drava banks. The town that once had a tollhouse later became the Drava navigation quay and afterwards a big railway crossing. In the Dravograd community there are many traces of history. Prominent rafters who nowdays transport tourists on the Drava, the famous Roman church of St. Vid in Dravograd, the remarkable Libeli~e ossuary and the Dravograd museum collection recording the Nazi violence are distinctive. The most interesting part of Dravograd’s landscape is the area of the Ko{enjak-Velka Regional park.

ME@ICA (area of 26 km2, 3.885 inhabitants, 491 m above sea level) The principal town of this community, idyllical town of Me`ica, is the Alpine and mining centre, as its name indicates, of the Me`i{ka dolina valley. While already the Romans were mining under Mt. Peca, today the Peca underground is turned into a tourist mine and museum. There are beautiful and nicely kept forest roads and mountain paths leading to all the surrounding hills. Some of these roads and paths lead to the Dom na Peci mountain hut where king Matja` sleeps in the nearby cavern. Above Me`ica there are some interesting points: the church of St. Lenart with a miraculous chain, Breg with its significant granaries and Lom with its magnificent views over neighbouring Podjuna/Jauntal.

I: www.mezica.si

Radlje ob Dravi Hotel Radlje ob Dravi Penzion Marka~

I: www.crna.si

I: www.dravograd.si

Muta Penzion Herk Gosti{~e pri Izidorju

^RNA NA KORO[KEM (area of 156 km2, 3.566 inhabitants, 575 m above sea level) The community of ^rna na Koro{kem is a picturesque one. Its principal town, ^rna, is known as the most beautiful tourist place in the Me`i{ka dolina valley, and it is famous for its traditional Tourist week of Koro{ka. ^rna's natural pearls are the wonderful alpine valleys of Topla, Koprivna and Bistra. The history of the oldest Slovenian lime-tree Najevska lipa at Ludranski Vrh above ^rna goes back to the Turkish invasions of this country. There are also imaginatively arranged mining and ethnological collections in the centre of the town to remind us of the times gone by. In the town itself, there are ski slopes which are considered to be the cradle of some top Slovenian skiers, owing to whom ^rna is known as “the village of the Olympians”.

MUTA (area of 39 km2, 3.670 inhabitants, 382 m above sea level) The Muta community lies in a natural cradle between the Pohorje, the Drava and the Kobansko. The principal town, Muta, was marked with forges and ironworks over the past. The Muta museum has been faithfully preserving this long-continued trade. Among the numerous cultural monuments the Kienhofen manor, today's museum's premises, should be mentioned as well as the round succursal church of St. John the Baptist (sv. Janeza Krstnika). Gortina, Pernice, Sveti Primo` and Sveti Jernej above Muta are the neighbouring towns and villages which offer peaceful and pleasant walks in all seasons.

I: www.muta.si

MISLINJA (area of 112 km2, 4.736 inhabitants, 598 m above sea level) Glavni trg 43, 2380 Slovenj Gradec Mislinjska dobrava 110, 2383 [m. pri Sl. Gradcu Mislinjska dobrava 110, 2383 [m. pri Sl. Gradcu Gmajna 48 a, 2380 Slovenj Gradec Golavabuka 55, 2383 [m. pri Sl. Gradcu Legen 108c, 2380 Slovenj Gradec Glavni trg 6, 2380 Slovenj Gradec

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A random traveller might think of Mislinja, the principal town of the Mislinja community, as no more than a town with a church and a few houses by the main road, but actually it is a fusion of five former settlements. The development of the town is connected with its position on the antique road Celeia–Colatio–Virunum, which enabled the trade, the transport and the ironworks to blossom. The ironworks in Mislinja started already in 1724. Visitors today admire the churches of St. Lenart and St. Ahac as well as the Robnik forge and archeological finds in Dov`e - villa rustica. There are also many possibilities for pleasant excursions to Kopa, Rogla, Turjak, Stara Gla`uta and elsewhere.

I: www.mislinja.si PODVELKA (area of 104 km2, 2.701 inhabitants, 330 m above sea level) Podvelka, the principal town of a new community, is an interesting settlement on the right Drava bank. In the past this town only served as a home to forestry workers who prepared the alluvial wood for sale. The uninhabited neighbouring hill slopes are nowadays a paradise for visitors looking for peace, freshness of nature and pure forest air. These beauties can be experienced on Jan`evski vrh, Javnik and Lehen na Pohorju. The tourists especially appreciate raft rides on Drava, in tourist village of Javnik, as well as church of St. John (Sv. Janez) at Jan`evski vrh which is known for its extraordinary strong positive energy with healing effects. At Kapla on Kozjak hikers can stretch their legs on the Panoramic Trail with 19 stops and also on Heart Trail, which is shorter and easier. I: www.podvelka.si

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I: www.slovenjgradec.si VUZENICA (area of 50 km2, 2.805 inhabitants, 338 m above sea level) Vuzenica, the principal town of this community, is a central settlement, idyllically set on the left Drava bank. Vuzenica is distinguished as one of the oldest towns in the Dravska dolina valley. Raftsmen once used to start their rafts in Vuzenica, and the carriers used to load their freight here lively. Once numerous fairs also were vivacious. Remains of the old castle bear witness of the former fame of Vuzenica, as well as the parish church of St. Nicholas (sv. Nikolaj). Among its parish priests was also the gentle poet and waker of national awareness Anton Martin Slom{ek. There is a possibility for wonderful autumn walks around the nearby Drav~e, Sv. Primo` na Pohorju and [entjan` nad Drav~ami.

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Slovenj Gradec is the administrative, economical and cultural centre of the Mislinja Valley and also the oldest town in the Koro{ka region, for it was granted its town charter as early as 1267. Its favourable position was provided by the shelter between Mt Ur{lja gora and the neighbouring Pohorje, where tourists nowadays can choose from many well-maintained hiking and cycling trails. The town is known for its artists and numerous cultural and social events. You certainly should visit the Koro{ka Gallery of Fine Arts, the birthplace of the composer Hugo Wolf, and both churches. Lively cultural activities have earned the town good references abroad, so in 1989 the United Nations bestowed upon it the eminent title of honour - ”Peace Messenger City.”

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Ribnica na Pohorju, the principal town of a relatively new community, is a small clustered settlement on the north side of the Pohorje range. There was a Roman road leading from Slovenske Konjice through Ribnica to the Dravska dolina valley. The town is surrounded by vast and dark Pohorje woods, therefore people here have always been occupied with forestry and saw mills as well as stockbreeding. Ribnica today is an idyllic climate tourist village with bungallows, ski slopes and well developed farm tourism. Ribnica also is a pleasant starting point for mountain paths towards Ribni{ka ko~a and Jezerski vrh. In Jospipdol, there is one of the first educational forest trails, Kapelvald, a treasure house of various tree species. We get to know natural beauty, the importance of a forest, and the history and way of living in this part of Pohorje. I: www.ribnicanapohorju.si

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I: www.obcina-radlje.si RAVNE NA KORO[KEM (area of 63 km2, 12.132 inhabitants, 394 m above sea level) Ravne is the biggest town in Koro{ka region. It is the town of ironworkers, Forma Viva steel sculptures and a profusion of books. While rich fonds of The Central Carinthian Library bear witness of cultural development, interesting museum collections tell about the history of ironwork. On the Pre{ki Vrh above Kotlje there is the Pre`ihova bajta shack, consolidating the memory of the writer Lovro Kuhar – Pre`ihov Voranc. There is Ivar~ko jezero lake under the wide Ur{lja gora welcoming you in summer and the snowy hillsides with ski slopes in winter. In Ravne there is a modern sports centre with halls, an Olympic and an indoor swimming pool, athletic stadium, sauna, fitness and numerous play courts.

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RADLJE OB DRAVI (area of 94 km2, 6.241 inhabitants, 370 m above sea level) Radlje ob Dravi is also the name of this community's principal town, which was settled as far back as the antiquity. Therefore in the Middle Ages the town already claimed the repute of one of the oldest settlements on the Drava banks. In addition, many different Roman finds tell about the respectable age of the town. On Kamen (”The Stone”) above the town once stood Radlje Castle, which was later on rebuilt into a mansion, which is nowadays surrounded by a beautiful English park. Despite the remarkable time span the significant market image of the town has been preserved until today. Brezni Vrh, Dobrava, Kozji Vrh, Radelca and Rem{nik are some of the small neighbouring towns also worth visiting.

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PREVALJE (area of 58 km2, 6.629 inhabitants, 411 m above sea level) The history of Prevalje, is at the same time the history of ironwork, as the ironworks of this town was, until its abolishment, the most important in this part of Europe. The community is also prouding itself with its rich cultural heritage, with Roman stones found in Zagrad, with two prodigious Gothic churches at Le{e, with an exceptional technical monument – [toparjev most bridge, with the fact that here once was the headquarters of the Society of St. Hermagoras (Mohorjeva dru`ba) publishing company and with the idea of the Reading Badge which was born here. Tourists should not leave out visiting the tourist village of [entanel and the scene of the last battles of World War II in Europe – Poljana and the Holmec border crossing where, in 1991, one of the most important battles of the independence war of Slovenia took place. In 2006 Prevalje was granted a town charter. I: www.prevalje.si

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INFORMATION Slovenj Gradec

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TIC Slovenj Gradec Glavni trg 24 2380 Slovenj Gradec T: +386 2 8812116 F: +386 2 8812117 E: [email protected] I: www.slovenjgradec.si

TIC Park kralja Matja`a Center 100 2393 ^rna na Koro{kem T: +386 2 8238269 F: +386 2 8703067 E: [email protected] I: www.crna.si

Dravograd

Ravne na Koro{kem

TIC Dravograd Trg 4. julija 50 2370 Dravograd T: +386 2 8710285, 8710286 E: [email protected] I: www.dravograd.si

TIC Ravne na Koro{kem Trg svobode 21 2390 Ravne na Koro{kem T: +386 2 8221219 F: +386 2 8221219 E: [email protected] I: www.ravne.si/tic

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TIC Vuzenica Mladinska ul. 1 2367 Vuzenica T: +386 2 8791220 F: +386 2 8791221 E: [email protected] I: www.vuzenica.si

TIC Prevalje Trg 56 2391 Prevalje T: +386 2 8232285 E: [email protected] I: www.prevalje.si

Radlje ob Dravi TIC Radlje ob Dravi Mariborska cesta 7 2360 Radlje ob Dravi T: +386 2 8879634, +386 40 852 287 E: [email protected] I: www.obcina-radlje.si

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